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    202 days ago

    Could Mauritius choose to keep .io? The income it would bring in would probably be bigger than their GDP.

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          21 day ago

          ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO

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            221 hours ago

            But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.

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              119 hours ago

              Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.

              ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.